Middle East: “Fifth ATWC to Take Place in Dubai During October”

The fifth annu­al Air­Taxi World Con­gress (ATWC) is to take place in Dubai, UAE, from Octo­ber 7th to 10th at the Grand Hyatt Dubai Con­fer­ence & Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre, reports a press release. The venue has 12,000 sq. metres event space along with onsite under­ground park­ing, dri­ve-in load­ing bay and exclu­sive VIP Majlis (sit­ting rooms).

The World Con­gress is to high­light the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) Indus­try “includ­ing an event with­in an event on Octo­ber 10th,  a show­case that will host a selec­tion of eVTOLs, eSTOLs, drones and next-gen­er­a­tion air­craft at the Air Chateau Dubai Heli­park, adja­cent to Dubai World Cen­tral Al Mak­toum Inter­na­tion­al Air­port,” explains the release.

The Dubai Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty recent­ly issued Air Chateau with a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion to devel­op new ver­ti­ports and heli­ports to sup­port region­al air ser­vices in the UAE. The com­pa­ny also pledged to acquire 100 Mid­night eVTOLs from Archer Avi­a­tion, as well as 10 fly­ing taxis from Crisalion Mobil­i­ty.

Mike Howarth, Pres­i­dent of ATWC, com­ment­ed, “We are look­ing for­ward to wel­com­ing up to 1,000 del­e­gates from all over the world. The event’s unique for­mu­la is all about con­duct­ing busi­ness and spurring on the rapid devel­op­ment of this emerg­ing AAM indus­try.” Par­tic­i­pants include the FAA, Electra.aero, Volo­copter, Lil­i­um, Rolls-Royce, Bris­tow Group, Korea Air­ports Cor­po­ra­tion, Hon­ey­well and Unit­ed Air­lines.

The four-day event will include var­i­ous fire­side chats with next-gen OEMs, com­ple­ment­ed by work­shops focus­ing on the crit­i­cal role of reg­u­la­tors, air­lines and air­ports plan­ning future route net­work strate­gies togeth­er, plus the needs and future role of han­dling agents and infra­struc­ture spe­cial­ists.

The event begins with ses­sions on:-

: Air­ports of Tomor­row — Pio­neer­ing AAM Inte­gra­tion.

: Air­lines and Oper­a­tors — The New Real­i­ty.

: Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty ver­sus Urban Air Mobil­i­ty.

: Heavy Car­go Drones and Deliv­ery Ser­vices as a New Mar­ket.

: USA, Chi­na, U.K and Por­tu­gal Mar­kets.

The ATWC will once again arrange online sched­ul­ing in 20-minute slots, enabling air­lines and start-up mobil­i­ty oper­a­tors, whose atten­dance is com­pli­men­ta­ry, to meet with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from OEMs, sup­pli­ers, oper­a­tors, air­ports, ver­ti­ports and emerg­ing urban net­works, as well as poten­tial busi­ness investors.

The Lil­i­um Jet will be on dis­play (Cred­it: Lil­i­um)

Howarth con­tin­ued, “Since we’ve been run­ning these events in Istan­bul (2022) and San Fran­cis­co (2023), the AAM mar­ket has grown expo­nen­tial­ly. There are now around 1,000 mod­els in var­i­ous devel­op­ment glob­al­ly, togeth­er with a host of fixed-wing region­al air mobil­i­ty air­craft. In many ways, this is Back to the Future, with the same rea­sons and require­ments for region­al, point-to-point air trav­el, but this time, pow­ered by ver­ti­cal-lift tech­nol­o­gy, auton­o­my, AI and hybrid-elec­tric propul­sion. Observers have called this the third age of avi­a­tion, which is an excel­lent descrip­tor.”

The tim­ing of this Dubai event falls direct­ly after Routes World in Bahrain, giv­ing inter­na­tion­al del­e­gates a bonus oppor­tu­ni­ty to max­imise their busi­ness trip and attend both.

Atten­dees also have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to join the ATWC “Immer­sive Tour of Dubai” with places avail­able on a first-come, first-served basis. The wel­come recep­tion is spon­sored by the Con­gress’ des­ti­na­tion part­ner, Dubai Depart­ment of Econ­o­my and Tourism.

For more infor­ma­tion

airtaxiworldcongress.com

(Top image: Grand Hyatt Dubai Con­fer­ence & Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre)

For the lat­est news, insights and con­tent regard­ing the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket, please join the fol­low­ing eVTOL Insights chan­nels: What­sApp, Face­book, Insta­gram, Spo­ti­fy, Apple Pod­casts, YouTube, X and LinkedIn.